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Aspiring game developer

Hey. I'm Benedict, and I'm a Computer Science student at NCSU (in the Game Development Concentration), and I've been pursuing some independent work in game development on the side. I'm currently trying my hand at building a grid-based tactics game using Swing/AWT, and I figured this'd be a good place to get some help with some sticky issues.